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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
6. If the foresaid remedies do but begin the cure, use this next to perfect it; or this alone for tender and cold Stomachs that cannot bear the other, which yet may much better go before this, and this come last.
Take for a hot body white Wine, for a cold body Sherry, two quarts, put it in a great bottle, and put to it of Senna an ounce, of Cinnamon bruised two drams, of Saffr•• one dram, of Cremor Tartary powdered half an ounce if it be Sherry, or two drams if it be white Wine. Let it stand close stopped three days (shaking it oft) then put it out into several bottles (to keep the better) take of this three spoonful fasting every day, two may serve when it is for prevention in a weak body, or four when you would purge more. If the taste seem the worse for the Tartar to any, you may leave it out, and put instead of it half an ounce of Epithyme, and take a dram of Cremor Tartary dissolved in a draught of good broth and hour or more after it.
Take for a hot body white Wine, for a cold body Sherry, two quarts, put it in a great bottle, and put to it of Senna an ounce, of Cynamon bruised two drams, of Saffr•• one dram, of Cremor Tartary powdered half an ounce if it be Sherry, or two drams if it be white Wine. Let it stand close stopt three days (shaking it oft) then put it out into several bottles (to keep the better) take of this three spoonful fasting every day, two may serve when it is for prevention in a weak body, or four when you would purge more. If the taste seem the worse for the Tartar to any, you may leave it out, and put instead of it half an ounce of Epithyme, and take a dram of Cremor Tartary dissolved in a draught of good broth and hour or more after it.
This Medicine is not loathsome, or nauseous to the stomach, and is magnified by former and later Physicians of the greatest experience and success in this Disease: But all such things must be patiently long continued, and no violent Medicines used.